New Orleans Recently I had my annual physical. I’ve used the same doctor for a dozen years. She chatted and asked me about other family members that I’ve sent her way. She asked me a series of basic, rote questions, checked my pulse, pulled out the stethoscope to take a listen, and then sent me …
Category: Health Care
The Problem of Obamacare Dropouts: Cost, Confusion, and Language
New Orleans We’re knocking on the door of another Affordable Care Act enrollment period beginning November 1st. There are ten million eligible people who have not yet received coverage of whom 40% or 4 million are lower income. Reports indicate that there are improvements in the website, but there is no indication that there is …
North Carolina is Showing the Way in Fighting for Rural Hospitals
New Orleans For all of the continuing polarization in Congress over Obama’s Affordable Care Act and the “last stand in the hospital door” strategy of one Republican governor after another, there are realities in the heartland of the Republican base that some of the politicians are continuing to miss from their sky high perches as …